Hyatt at Olive 8 is the first LEED certified “green” hotel in Seattle

Green is in – we’ve been covering green travel all month, and as August slowly comes to an end we’ll take a close look at some impressive green properties that deserve extra attention.

The Hyatt at Olive 8 in Seattle opened in January, and received their LEED Silver certification in July. This marks two firsts – the first LEED certified hotel in the Hyatt chain, and the first LEED certified hotel in Seattle.

The hotel offers 346 rooms, including 13 junior suites, a governors suite and a presidential suite. As is expected from any modern hotel, all the rooms are outfitted with flat panel TV’s, iPod docking alarm clocks, as well as wired and wireless Internet access. Rooms also have floor to ceiling windows, which means lots of natural light.

The “green” features of the Olive 8 are pretty impressive:

  • Low-flow plumbing (which saves 2.4 million gallons of water each year)
  • Dual mode toilets use 29% less water (when compared to single mode flushers)
  • 20% of the building was constructed using recycled materials
  • 75% of the interior space has access to daylight
  • The entire hotel was built using virtually no VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds)
  • Rooms use key-controlled light switches from WattStopper Inc.
  • All cleaning products are low-VOC and 100 toxin free


Rooms at he Hyatt at Olive 8 start around $190/night. The hotel has its own restaurant (Urbane, also LEED certified), a spa, 24 hour fitness and almost 18,000 square feet of meeting space.

The hotel pool deserves some special attention – it is a 65-foot saline pool, which means the hotel does not have to use chlorination chemicals to clean the water.

The Hyatt at Olive 8 is located at 1635 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA.